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Summerville
NAME Summerville
AREA LOCATION Cross Avenue, Booterstown
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Williamstown and it is annotated as Summerville on both.
GENERAL Summerville a protected structure is a two storey over basement level
(two storey over semi basement to the south and three storeys to the north) detached house on the
north side of Cross Avenue on ¾ acre approx. Built circa 1807, it has an iron wind vane on its pitched
roof. The ground floor windows and porch have elaborate ironwork canopies and it has a cast iron
balcony at first floor level. From 1807 to 1826 is was leased by John Gillman (the owner) to various
tenants for the season or for short periods. It had a grapery, coach house, greenhouse
and servant's apartments.
YEAR BUILT circa 1807
VALUATION In 1862 and 1925 the valuation was 45 and 90 pounds respectively and in the
1901 census it is noted as having 15 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1807 - 1826 Leased to various short term tenants.
1830 - 1835 Rev Joseph T Curtis
1837 - 1838 Major H Jones
1842 Edward McCullagh
1853 - 1854 William Stephens
1857 - 1874 Alexander Curtis La Nauze
1863 - 1874 The Misses La Nauze
1875 Vacant
1876 - 1879 Edward de Selvier
1880 - 1892 Joshua Bewley
1896 - 1897 Judge John Roche
1901 - 1907 James George Powell
1909 -1911 Herbert Sharman Crawford
1925 Dr Palmer
1927 Patrick Flemming lived here when Higgins was shot in 1927
1929 Seán Ernest Brady
1931 - 1943 Oswald Mueller-Dubrow
1955 - 1959 Geoffrey Jenkins
1961 For Sale on 2 acres
STAFF
1901 Annie Frances Fox - Profession Cook
Agnes Sarah Franklin - Housemaid
Kate Farrell - Kitchenmaid
Michael Joseph Kennedy - Coachman
1911 Mary Reilly - Nurse
Mary Daly -Parlourmaid
Margaret Donoghue - Cook
Kate Larkin - Nursery Maid
Annie Plunkett - Kitchenmaid
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019